We are pleased to announce multi-zone layouts, a feature that lets you divide a single screen into independent content regions — each with its own media, playlist, and schedule. This has been one of the most requested features since our launch, and it is now available on all plans at no additional cost.
What Are Zones?
A zone is a defined region of your screen that operates independently. Instead of dedicating an entire display to one piece of content at a time, you can split it into multiple areas — each showing different content, updating on different schedules, and serving different purposes.
Think of a typical reception area screen. Previously, you might rotate between a welcome message, a company video, and a news feed. With zones, you can show all three simultaneously: the welcome message in a header bar, the video in the main content area, and a live news ticker along the bottom.
Zones do not compete for screen time — they share screen space. Each zone is a self-contained content player with its own playlist and schedule.
Available Layout Templates
We have launched with a set of pre-built layout templates that cover the most common use cases:
- Full Screen: The classic single-zone layout. One piece of content fills the entire display
- Main + Ticker: A large content area with a scrolling text ticker along the bottom edge — ideal for news, alerts, or promotional messages
- Main + Sidebar: A 70/30 split with the primary content on the left and a narrower sidebar on the right for supplementary information
- Grid 2x2: Four equal quadrants, each operating independently — popular in control rooms, sports bars, and lobbies
- Header + Main + Footer: A three-row layout with branding at the top, primary content in the centre, and a ticker or logo bar at the bottom
- L-Shape: A main content area with an L-shaped border zone along the bottom and right edges — commonly used in corporate communications
Use Cases
Multi-zone layouts open up possibilities that single-zone displays simply cannot match:
Quick-service restaurants can display the menu in the main zone while running a promotional video in the sidebar and showing wait times in a bottom ticker. When the promotion changes, only that zone updates — the menu stays uninterrupted.
Corporate offices can dedicate one zone to company announcements, another to live KPI dashboards, and a third to a branded clock or weather widget. Each zone pulls from a different content source and updates on its own cadence.
Retail stores can use an L-shape layout to display product videos in the main area while running pricing and promotional information in the surrounding border zones. This mimics the proven print technique of having a hero image with callout boxes.
How It Works
Setting up a multi-zone layout takes less than a minute:
- Navigate to your screen's settings in the dashboard
- Select a layout template from the available options
- Assign a playlist or individual content item to each zone
- Set zone-specific schedules if needed (optional — zones inherit the screen's default schedule by default)
- Publish. The screen will immediately begin rendering the new layout
Each zone supports all content types: images, videos, web pages, HTML widgets, and playlists. You can mix and match freely — a video in one zone, a web dashboard in another, and a rotating image gallery in a third.
Technical Details
Zones are rendered using CSS Grid on the player, which means they are pixel-perfect and hardware-accelerated on all supported devices. There is no performance penalty for using multiple zones compared to a single full-screen layout — the player handles content compositing natively.
Content transitions within a zone (fades, slides, cuts) operate independently. A fade transition in the main zone will not affect the ticker zone, and vice versa. Each zone maintains its own playback state, which means restarting content in one zone does not interrupt the others.
Multi-zone layouts are available now on all plans. There is no additional cost, no add-on required, and no limit on the number of zones per screen. Log in and try it today.
What Is Next
We are already working on custom zone editing, which will let you define your own layout grids rather than choosing from our templates. We are also adding zone-level analytics so you can track which zones receive the most engagement. Both features are expected later this quarter.